A rapidly converging phase field model

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1017-1034

  Chen, Xinfu ^a   Caginalp, Gunduz ^a   Eck, Christof ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Phase field model; Second order asymptotics; Sharp interface limit

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745291089     PISSN: 10780947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcds.2006.15.1017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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